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Dry Land: Unirrigated Agriculture in LAC

10/08/2009

The 90% of cultivated land in LAC is not irrigated (Wani, et al., 2009).

El 90% de la tierra cultivada en ALC no está irrigada (Wani, et all, 2009)

Wani, S.P., T .K. Sreedevi, J. Rockstrom y Y.S. Ra makrishna, editores. 2009. “Rainfed Agriculture – Past Tren ds and Future Prospects.” En S.P. Wani, J. Rockstrom y T. Oweis, ed itore s. Rainfed Agriculture: Unlocking the Potential . Cambridge MA: CABI North American Office, pp. 1 - 35)

Corn cultivated area

15/01/2009 Go to Evidence

1,004,000 hectares of corn ceased to be planted in Mexico between 1994 and 2006, showing a significant reduction in cultivated area (Arroyo, 2009).

1,004,000 hectáreas de maíz dejaron de sembrarse en México entre 1994 y 2006, mostrando una significativa reducción en la superficie cultivada (Arroyo, 2009).

Macías Uribe, C. (2019). World Agricultural Trade Reform, Insertion of Mexico´s agricultural sector under NAFTA and the WTO Agreement on Agriculture, 1994-2012. Textual, 74, 13-49.

Environmental impact of the coffee crisis

04/06/2008 Go to Evidence

100% of the shaded coffee plantations abandoned during the crisis were invaded and converted to intensively managed, short-term crops, treeless pastures or urban sprawl (Bosselmann, 2008).

100% de los cafetales bajo sombra abandonados durante la crisis fueron invadidos y convertidos a cultivos intensivamente manejados y de corta duración, pastos sin árboles o expansión urbana (Bosselmann, 2008).

Bosselmann, A. (2008). Using payments for environmental services to secure environmental services and livelihoods in coffee agroforests – A project portrayal. Scandinavian Forest Economics, 42, 421-440.

Smallholder coffee plantations

04/06/2008 Go to Evidence

100% of Central American coffee areas are dominated by small producers with small holdings, unlike the large coffee estates found in Brazil (Bosselmann, 2008).

100% de las áreas cafetaleras de Centroamérica están dominadas por pequeños productores con pequeñas propiedades, a diferencia de las grandes fincas cafetaleras encontradas en Brasil (Bosselmann, 2008).

Bosselmann, A. (2008). Using payments for environmental services to secure environmental services and livelihoods in coffee agroforests – A project portrayal. Scandinavian Forest Economics, 42, 421-440.

Environmental services coffee plantations

04/06/2008 Go to Evidence

100% of coffee agroforestry systems are found in buffer zones of protected areas and inside the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor in Costa Rica (Bosselmann, 2008).

100% de los sistemas agroforestales de café se encuentran en zonas de amortiguamiento de áreas protegidas y dentro del Corredor Biológico Mesoamericano en Costa Rica (Bosselmann, 2008).

Bosselmann, A. (2008). Using payments for environmental services to secure environmental services and livelihoods in coffee agroforests – A project portrayal. Scandinavian Forest Economics, 42, 421-440.

Double crop soybean-corn

21/10/0218 Go to Evidence

93% of the total area of double cropping in Mato Grosso corresponded to the soybean-corn system during the study period (Garrett et al., 2018).

93% del área total de doble cultivo en Mato Grosso correspondía al sistema soja-maíz durante el período de estudio (Garrett et al., 2018).

Garrett, R.D., Koh, I., Lambin, E.F., le Polain de Waroux, Y., Kastens, J.H., & Brown, J.C. (2018). Intensification in agriculture-forest frontiers: Land use responses to development and conservation policies in Brazil. Global Environmental Change, 53, 233-243.